--- title: Paying a little each week for a long time (a loan or "pay later") us… — Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be… · tree and pragmatics description: Paying a little each week for a long time (a loan or "pay later") usually costs more in total than paying the price at once. Who acts: loan, Paying. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/) / [Olympiad: saving plans and offers too…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true/) / 11 # Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★, sentence 11 Paying a little each week for a long time (a loan or "pay later") usually costs more in total than paying the price at once. **Who acts:** loan, Paying · **What happens:** pay, cost · **To what, where:** little, more, total, price This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★» of the money course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (loan, Paying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:042-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true.lesson:11 # text = Paying a little each week for a long time (a loan or "pay later") usually costs more in total than paying the price at once. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 042-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Paying pay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 csubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:amod 4 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 loan loan NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 15 advmod _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 19 usually usually ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 costs cost VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj 21 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 total total ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 nmod _ _ 24 than than SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 paying pay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 25 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pay** | gerund | | a little | | | time; week | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Asset | | 2 | **pay** *in a quote* | infinitive | a loan *not said here* | | | | | late *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **cost** | present | Paying | more | | total | | usually *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value | | 4 | **pay** | gerund | Paying *not said here* | the price | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Asset | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:money:042-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true.lesson:11`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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